Missing The Boat: War Stories of Thomas Alan Dirkin

3 Table of Contents PREFACE  Readers Guide and Time Line  Forward  My Fathers Background PART ONE: War Stories Going to War: The Short and the Long of It  Life at Stalag VIIIB, Lamsdorf, Poland  Escaped  The End of the Action  Life after the War PART TWO. Filling in Some Blanks: Historical Context  The End  Appendix Missing the Boat was first published in December 2018